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SH 131 Inventory Form.Pdf Colorado Historic Highway Inventory - Historical Summary and Evaluation of Significance Highway Name: State Highway (SH) 131 CDOT Route Nos. and Milepost (MP) Limits: CDOT Route Route Description 131A From I 70A at Mile Point 156 North To SH 6E East of Wolcott 131B From SH 6-E in Wolcott North via State Bridge, Toponas, and Oak Creek To SH 40-A South of Steamboat Springs Highway Location: Counties: Routt, Eagle Length (Miles): 68.75 OAHP Site Numbers (for previously recorded segments, if applicable)*: OAHP Site No. Assessment Assessment Date Site Name 5EA.186.1 Officially not eligible>Field 07/22/1994>07/13/1994 WOLCOTT TO STEAMBOAT SPRINGS eligible STAGE ROAD 5EA.186.2 Officially not eligible>Field 09/20/2001>08/08/2001> STATE BRIDGE TO WOLCOTT STAGE not eligible>Field eligible 06/30/1977 ROAD 5EA.186.3 Officially not eligible>Field 09/30/2002>07/24/2002 WOLCOTT TO STEAMBOAT SPRINGS not eligible STAGE ROAD - SEGMENT 5EA.186.4 Officially not 10/24/2008>09/30/2002> STATE BRIDGE TO WOLCOTT ROAD eligible>Officially not 08/04/2008>07/24/2002 eligible>Field not eligible>Field not eligible 5EA.186.5 Officially not 10/24/2008>09/30/2002> STATE BRIDGE TO WOLCOTT ROAD - eligible>Officially not 08/04/2008>07/24/2002 SEGMENT eligible>Field not eligible>Field not eligible 5EA.186.6 Officially not 10/24/2008>09/30/2002> STATE BRIDGE TO WOLCOT ROAD - eligible>Officially not 08/04/2008>07/24/2002 SEGMENT, WOLCOTT TO STEAMBOAT eligible>Field not SPRINGS STAGE ROAD - SEGMENT eligible>Field not eligible 5EA.186.7 Officially not eligible>Field 09/30/2002>07/24/2002 WOLCOTT TO STEAMBOAT SPRINGS not eligible STAGE ROAD - SEGMENT 5EA.2587.3 Supports eligibility of entire 03/27/2013>08/01/2012 US HIGHWAY 6 - SEGMENT linear resource>Field eligible 5EA.3004 Officially not eligible>Field 03/27/2013>01/17/2013 STATE HIGHWAY 131A; SPUR ROAD not eligible BETWEEN US 6 AND INTERSTATE 70 5RT.721.1 Field not eligible 10/19/1990 WHETSTONE ROAD, SEGMENT Discussion of Site Forms (for previously recorded segments, if applicable): Of the Colorado Cultural Resources Inventory forms for previously recorded segments of this highway listed above, 5EA.186.1-.7 discuss the Wolcott to Steamboat Springs Stage Road that ran from 1886 to 1908 in the area of the current highway. The Stage Road is recommended eligible for the National Register of Historic places (National Register), however all the segments recorded above were determined non-supporting of the overall linear resource. 5EA.2587.3 and 5EA.3004 were not available for review. 5EA.2587.3 discusses a segment of U.S. Highway (US) 6 at Wolcott and was determined supporting of the entire linear resource of US 6. 5EA.3004 is a site form for 131A between US 6 and Interstate(I)-70 near Wolcott. The resource was determined officially not eligible for the National Register in 2013. Historic Districts located within 250 feet of highway (OAHP Site Number and Name)*: OAHP Site No. District Name Assessment (If Applicable) None No historic districts are found on or adjacent to this highway *Information based on data from Compass provided by OAHP Mead & Hunt, Inc./Dill Historians LLC State Highway (SH) 131 - Page 1 Colorado Historic Highway Inventory - Historical Summary and Evaluation of Significance Highway Name: State Highway (SH) 131 Historical Data: SH 131 A is a small, .32 mile spur between US 6 and I-70 just outside of Wolcott. SH 131B begins at the junction of I-70 at Wolcott and travels north via State Bridge, Toponas, Oak Creek to US 40 south of Steamboat Springs. The entire length is 68.75 miles. Although a wagon route existed in the area of the present highway, SH 131 was built beginning in the late 1910s. The segment from Wolcott to State Bridge was designated as State Primary Route 39, and the segment from State Bridge to Toponas to Steamboat was part of Primary Route 40 on the 1916 state highway maps. By 1924, the segment from Wolcott to State Bridge was designated SH 11 until 1954 when it was eliminated from the state highway system. The segment from State Bridge to Steamboat was designated SH 131 by 1924. The entire route included State Bridge to Wolcott by 1954. During the late 1930s and through the mid 1950s, the route was improved and widened. In 1934 and 1935 the highway department employed Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers to rebuild the route through Oak Creek’s main street to Phippsburg and then the final 16 miles north to Steamboat Springs. (U.S. Works Program Highway Project Number, WPSS No 388-C, 388-C and 388-D; USPW NRS 388 (1935)). The entire route was paved by 1970. The westernmost third of Colorado is dominated by the Colorado Plateau, which stretches from western Colorado into eastern Utah, northern Arizona, and northwestern New Mexico. The Colorado Plateau is a high desert with scattered forests and mesas (or tablelands), including the forested Flat Tops and Grand Mesa, the desert buttes of the Bookcliffs and Roan Plateau, and the juniper studded canyons and red sandstone formations that include Colorado National Monument. The region is also characterized by broad swaths of federally-owned land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service (Routt National Forest, Flat Tops Wilderness, and Grand Mesa National Forest), with lesser amounts belonging to the National Park Service (Colorado National Monument and Dinosaur National Monument). Before the establishment of Colorado Territory in 1861, this area was part of Utah Territory (1854), reinforcing the physical connection between western Colorado and eastern Utah. Similarly, the land in the northwestern part of Colorado resembles southwestern Wyoming and there are strong economic and social connections as ranchers from southern Wyoming often owned land in northern Colorado, and vice versa. The Colorado River and its major tributaries, including the Colorado (Grand), Uncompahgre, and Gunnison are the major sources of water. Up north, the Yampa and White rivers feed into the Green River before it joins the Colorado in Utah and are the lifelines of the region. As with other parts of the arid state, the rivers dictated the location of settlements, railroads, agriculture, and the state’s roads. After the Utes were removed in 1880 to reservations in Utah (leaving only two small Ute reservations in the extreme southwest corner of Colorado), the railroads quickly mobilized to provide transportation and economic opportunity for farmers, ranchers, and other businesses. The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad built the first lines into the San Juan, Gunnison, and Colorado (Grand) River valleys between 1881 to 1883 and helped develop the towns of Grand Junction, Montrose, and Delta, among others. The railroad to Steamboat Springs and Craig was slower to develop, however, given the isolation of the area and issues with winter travel. David Moffat’s Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railroad entered Steamboat in 1909. After Moffat’s death in 1911, the railroad was bought by the Denver and Salt Lake, and it continued to its termination point to Craig in 1913. The railroad stimulated the development of coal mining in the Yampa River Valley which required a reliable source of freight transportation. Agriculture in the Grand and Gunnison river valleys started with experimentation on the best crops suited for the environment. Farmers in the early 1880s discovered the river valleys ideal for fruit growing due to the lower elevations, long growing seasons, and potential for large irrigation systems such as the Grand Valley Canal on the north side of the Colorado in the 1890s. The fruit growing region stretched from Fruita, Grand Junction, and Palisade along the Colorado River to Delta, Hotchkiss, and Paonia on the North Fork of the Gunnison. Peaches thrived near Palisade, while apples and pears did well near Cedaredge and areas of Hotchkiss and Paonia. Farmers also had success with sugar beets, corn, wheat, barley, millets, and potatoes (Wyckoff, 1999: 227-231). Settlements clustered near river bottoms at Parachute, Rifle, Meeker, Steamboat Springs, and Craig, where large ranches grazed cattle and sheep on higher benches above the river bottoms, much of it leased from the federal government for grazing. Brown’s Hole, in the far northwest corner of the state, shared borders with Utah and Wyoming and was known as a good winter range for large cattle herds from Wyoming (Wyckoff 1999: 244). In northwest Colorado, energy-related resources such as coal, oil shale, oil, and natural gas have been important to the economy of the region since the late 1880s although the industry was slow to develop along the Yampa until *Information based on data from Compass provided by OAHP Mead & Hunt, Inc./Dill Historians LLC State Highway (SH) 131 - Page 2 Colorado Historic Highway Inventory - Historical Summary and Evaluation of Significance Highway Name: State Highway (SH) 131 railroad lines provided transportation after 1909. Coal deposits are located in the Yampa Valley west and south of Steamboat Springs, the Danforth Hills northwest of Meeker, and the Grand Hogback (near New Castle) north of Glenwood Springs. Oil and gas are found near Rangely and Craig, and oil shale has been a boom and bust commodity in the Pieance Basin, northeast of Grand Junction, since the turn of the twentieth century. While trains are still used to haul coal through the area, trucks became increasingly more important to the industry after World War II and the improvement of the area’s highways. SH 131 connects the Yampa River Valley communities of Steamboat, Yampa, and Topanas to the larger transportation networks of US 40 and US 6 (now I-70).
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